DTD prohibited in xml document exception

Question

I\'m getting this error when trying to parse through an XML document in a C# application:

\"For security reasons DTD is prohibited in this XML documen

Answer 1

Note that settings.ProhibitDtd is now obsolete, use DtdProcessing instead: (new options of Ignore, Parse, or Prohibit)

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Parse;

and as stated in this post: How does the billion laughs XML DoS attack work?

you should add a limit to the number of characters to avoid DoS attacks:

XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
settings.DtdProcessing = DtdProcessing.Parse;
settings.MaxCharactersFromEntities = 1024;